We Are Our Avatars VI (Closed for Good)

[Saltyk]

"Yes, but it has been this way for an extremely long time. Thousands of years. And our two nations have never trusted one another. Each seems to blame the other for the problem. Honestly, I know not how true any of that is. I only know that this is the state of events. We almost achieved peace 20 years ago with the forming of the city of Vallencheirn, a city built by both nations, but that was shattered. Both nations claim the other attacked them. I was at that city, and even I know not what happened. But my wife was... lost at that time. I took my son, Savranth, and raised him on my own, with little other choice. I think he blames Legaia for the loss of his mother, before he ever knew her..."

Tiberius looked to Rita. "I want nothing from you, child. But you all may stay the night here, if you wish. You can leave tomorrow. I have no need to keep you and you all should work to find a way home. I fear the drums of war maybe beating in the distance."

He nods to Jessica. "If you would be so kind as to enlighten us. I must confess that I know very little of that. I've never heard of any such thing ever happening before. This is most peculiar."

[hr]

"What would you wish to discuss, then?" Savranth seeing that Lyla had entered the Mess Hall and realizing that the interrogation must be over.

[hr]
"All I know is that they say she died not long after his son was born." The secretary replied. "As for your other question... We beastkin are an oddity. It's rare, but on occasion, a child is born to parents that is.... different. A pair of Xiphatian parents may have a child that can not use magic, for example. Some seem to think we are unreliable because of this..."

OoC: And apparently there is a limit on how much a post can display... Who knew?
@FPS: I had thought he had addressed Lyla's question...

 

[DotSlash]

Ness looks and bows her head. "My apologies, I didn't mean to be offensive." Turning to Echo, she tilts her head a bit. Noting Jessica's sniffing, she comes to the conclusion that she can smell magic... or something like that. But just to be sure... "This girl's cursed? How can you tell?"

Ness walks over to Echo and smiles at her. "It's alright. Can you tell us your name, miss?"

 

[CmmdrRosh99]

Noel noticing "Beatrice"s 'headache' motioned to her. "Go get something to eat, we can discuss what will happen later."

"What are you my mom?" she said with slight indignation. A second later, her stomach growled. "Tch. Fine..." she started to make her way into the mess hall.

Noel raised her eyebrow at Jessica with her neutral face before turning her attention back to Tiberius, listening in to the story.

[hr]
Upon reaching the mess hall, "Beatrice" noticed Lyra with her holograms with a roll of her eyes. Seeing the strange catgirl, Tao, sleeping, she heavily sighed. "[sub]Stupid cat...[/sub]"

 

[Furioso]

OoC: @Salty, really? I've seen HUGE walls-o-text before, never would have thought there would be a limit


Rita lowered her book and shrugged "That doesn't concern me, but I want to know something. You can use magic despite the lack of the things required to use magic where I'm from. How exactly does magic work here?"

 

[Outisakanobody]

OoC: And apparently there is a limit on how much a post can display... Who knew?

OOC: That's unfortunate.

"Tell us your name." Echo blurted nervously.

 

[Zepherus14]

"Well..." Sasha thought for a quick second. "If this whole land is filled with magic...what kinds are... there..?" She eventually came up with. "Or that raccoon... woman... in the building before, is she from here? I haven't seen any other ones, well except for her." Sasha pointed at Tao snoozing.

 

[Demonjazz]

Steiner went over to Ness with a huge plate of food like one of the ones you see in Scooby-Doo "I'm sorry if I'm interrupting anything but would you like any of the food"

 

[Slenn]

@Furi. Maybe it's something new the site designers put in.

 

[Outisakanobody]

"Mmmm, *snore* I guess Tao could eat a little more, if you insist *snore*, meow *snore*." Tao muttered as she slept.

 

[FPSfanatic]

Lyra looked over to Beatrice and glared. "I'm sorry, did I say something to annoy you? Because its usually after I open my mouth that people get pissed at me."

OoC @Salty mostly meant Lyra offering to explain 'the great hunt' and not being noticed, for the most part.

 

[Chungus]

Loki nodded upon hearing the explaination on the subject of Tiberius' wife. Although he wanted to inquire further, he refraied from doing so, figuring that for a stranger to ask that many questions on such a subject would raise suspicions, something he was aiming to avoid. "Yes, I have heard every person in this... Xiphatia uses magic. I can see how a child being born that cannot is thought to be an odd case. But what of these other nations you spoke of?" Loki asked, pausing for a moment as he recalled their names. "Legaia and the Wild Lands, was it? I saw several soldiers in grey uniforms prior to coming to this building, and since those who work here seem to wear blue uniform, I can only assume the were part of another nation. And they did not use magic, rather then firearms and machines."
Even having noticed literal firestorm had subsided, and upon hearing Jessica say she could posibly explain how he and the others came to this strange world, Loki remained where he was, finding the subjects the secretarry spoke of to be far mor interesting. And still being suspicious of the general, he kept up the projection.

 

[Drakmorg]

Jessica nodded her head to Tiberius, then turned to address the folks who were still outside. "Right, currently this is only a hypothesis, so I cannot be absolutely sure that this is truly the case. But, I believe that there is something that has drawn these people to this place. This has actually been recorded as having happened by my people on multiple occasions. We call it a Dimensional Anomaly. Some unseen force, for whatever reason, has plucked these people from their homes or diverted them here while they were on their way to another place. I'm actually here to study the Anomaly, try and determine why it has occurred, and return those who have been displaced to their rightful dimensions...[small]if that's even possible[/small]." She explained.

She turned so she was specifically addressing Ness, "Oh it's fine. We just don't like being called 'part-cat'. It comes with the slight implication that we're less than people. At least, that's how we see it." glancing back over at Echo, she answered Ness' question, "Well, I've spent so much time around magic that I can tell it's presence by scent. There's some magic in that girl that just smells awful, so I assume it's a curse of some kind." Hearing Echo's response, she pondered aloud, "Perhaps it has something to do with the way she speaks?"

 

[Saltyk]

"I see... Have you tried to use magic here, miss?" Tiberius asked a little surprised.
"Here magic is everywhere. We mages are sort of like fountains of magic. And we can use that to interact with and manipulate the world. Sometimes simply by altering the flow in our own bodies, as with physical magic. Other times by manipulating the elements and the magic that flows through them, as with Elemental magic. With Healing magic, you channel your energy into another and facilitate the healing process at a greater rate. Doctors use this to heal patients of virtually any illness. And Shield magic is rather difficult, but effectively you form a barrier using that latent magical energy."

He turns and looks at Jessica. "Interesting. As I said before, though, I have never heard of such a thing happening before. However, there may be some cause for it."

[hr]

"There are three major schools of magic. Elemental, Physical, and Mystic." Savranth said, then looked to Tao. "Oh them? They're beastkin. They're all over the place. I hear there's an entire village of them to the North of here, in a place called Everwood."

[hr]

"Well, Sir, Legaia is South of here. It's a nation of technology. They use guns, and other such things. I understand the soldiers all have suits that enhance their physical abilities a small amount, and even giant machines similar to our Golems. And the Wild Lands are merely and untamed area East of here. A few people live there, though."

OoC: @Furi: Check the Codex. It currently stops at you. It's all there, but you have to quote and Preview it to see it. If I knew this would happen, I would have saved at least two posts for it. I think the characters are taking up a lot of it right now.

 

[CmmdrRosh99]

"Like what you did just now; open that mouth of yours?" Beatrice growled out, still gripping her head. But it didn't seem that she was growling at Lyra, but more towards her own headache. Walking over to Tao, she poked at her. "Why is this... thing sleeping here? Aren't there beds?"
[hr]
Noel kept her silent, having the word 'magic'.

Magic has a science of its own... "Forgive me General Tiberius, but I am getting rather tired, and would wish to know of a place to stay for the night.

 

[DotSlash]

Ness nods toward Jessica a bit, confirming her suspicions. "I see... I'd assume it would be something like this, but just to make sure, we should see if anything else prompts a different response other than mimicry. As for the Dimensional Anomaly theory of yours... " She pauses before simply cutting off her thoughts with a "Nevermind." and turns toward Echo. "Miss, can you please not restate this sentence in any form?"

 

[Slenn]

Interesting phenomena. I wonder if the so called 'magical' energy was an unknown side effect in the description of this Age. Remember, if it exists, then there must be something written in the book that allows it to exist. Strange. I wonder if the writer intended this to happen.

 

[Furioso]

OoC: @Salt, well that's a pretty big issue...
"No, I haven't tried it. I wouldn't be so foolish as to attempt something as complex as magic without understanding how it works here." Something about the last part of what Tiberius had said also caught her attention "Wait, you said you can perform healing magic here?"

 

[FPSfanatic]

"Yeah, something like that." Lyra said to her question. To her addressing Tao, Lyra said " Be grateful she's not actively grabbing someone else's breasts right now. She seems to have a disturbing fascination with them. Hey, you want some painkillers? Seems like you're hurting a fair bit right now."

 

[Outisakanobody]

Echo gave a visible effort to do as she was told, but was unable to comply no matter how hard she tried. "Can not." she said rather miserably. When she heard Jess talk about magic being in her, she took out her wand and sent off a little show of lights over the girls head to display her meager talents.

Tao lightly batted at the woman's finger and she snored and slept, a dreamy smile on her face.

 

[Chungus]

"I see. And this prejudice against beastkin, is it as severe in Legaia as it is here? Or at least, I assume the isseu is severe here, as, excluding those thatfind themselves as displaced as I, I have yet to see any other of your kind, while there is many a human walking about." Loki asked, his projection still talking is if it were real, while the true Loki turned towards the door to observe what those outside where doing.